Lower Merion Township is enacting a 30-day burn ban due to the extended period of dry conditions affecting Lower Merion and ...

Fire departments across Central Illinois are issuing burn bans as dry conditions are about to be exacerbated by high winds ...

Several emergency agencies and local officials have issued a burn ban effective at midnight March 13. Iroquois County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator Scott Anderson issued a press release ...

A Burn Ban has been issued for Somerset County. The ban applies to all outdoor burning, including campfires, bonfires, ...

State law requires any local fireworks ban to have a one-year delay before coming into effect.

RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE SPECIFIC TIME PERIODS AROUND INDEPENDENCE DAY AND NEW YEAR’S EVE WHERE IT’S LEGAL TO BUY AND SET OFF FIREWORKS. HOWEVER, MANY CITIES AND COUNTIES HAVE AN OUTRIGHT BAN.

STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) — Washington County Sheriff Jim Frank has seen plenty of the sorts of injuries that prompted Minnesota’s ban on fireworks. “In my years as a police officer, there have been a ...

Fountain, Warren and Benton county officials issued burn bans for their respective counties Monday due to drought conditions affecting the area.